بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
in the chronicle of ' Erachs Emir Usama, Ambassador of the vizier of Damascus, told him: "When I visited Jerusalem, I entered the mosque al-Aqsa occupied by the Templars. Next to it stood a small mosque which the Franks had turned in church. The Templars, I was assigned this small mosque for my prayers. One day I went there to glorify God, I was deep in prayer, when Franco fell on me, grabbed me and I turned her face towards the East, saying: "Here's how to pray." A group of Templars rushed upon him, seized it and turned it out. Then he apologized to me, saying: "It 's an alien who has just arrived from the land of the Franks has never seen anyone pray without being directed to the East."
René Grousset, which cites this passage in his Epics des Croisades (Plon, Paris, 1939) adds: "The contacts between emirs and knights were so confidenziali che un signore franco propose di tenere presso di sé il figlio di Usama per allevarlo nella scienza della Cavalleria ".
Liberamente tratto da
P. Ponsoye," L'Islam e il Graal "; ed. SE
